Standardized Emotion Elicitation Databases (SEEDs) allow studying emotions in laboratory
settings by replicating real-life emotions in a controlled environment. The International …

Selecting appropriate stimuli to induce emotional states is essential in affective research.
Only a few standardized affective stimulus databases have been created for auditory …

In empirical aesthetics, choosing stimuli, especially artworks, is a persistent challenge.
Artworks differ largely in terms of style, complexity, formal features, and valence, as well as …

Using appropriate stimuli to evoke emotions is especially important for researching emotion.
Psychologists have provided several standardized affective stimulus databases—such as …

Affective computing is a nascent field situated at the intersection of artificial intelligence with
social and behavioral science. It studies how human emotions are perceived and …

In the present study, we introduce affective norms for a new set of Spanish words, the Madrid
Affective Database for Spanish (MADS), that were scored on two emotional dimensions …

Visual emotional stimuli evoke enhanced activation in early visual cortex areas which may
help organisms to quickly detect biologically salient cues and initiate appropriate approach …

Abstract The Nencki Affective Picture System (NAPS; Marchewka, Żurawski, Jednoróg, &
Grabowska, Behavior Research Methods, 2014) is a standardized set of 1,356 realistic, high …

Abstract The field of Music Emotion Recognition has become and established research sub-
domain of Music Information Retrieval. Less attention has been directed towards the …

Choosing optimal maskers for existing soundscapes to effect a desired perceptual change
via soundscape augmentation is non-trivial due to extensive varieties of maskers and a …